All Information management/IT articles – Page 28
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News
Capita faces NHS Choices axe
The future operating model of the website at the centre of the drive to extend choice in the NHS faces fresh uncertainty after the Cabinet Office blocked the renewal of a contract with the existing supplier.
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Comment
We can achieve a paperless NHS by 2018
The 2018 target is achievable with the right focus and effort
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News
Central health database challenged
Privacy campaigners and medical groups have questioned a move that will see GPs hand over patient information to a central information bank.
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Comment
Free from the dead hand of Connecting for Health
“We need to link the technology to see the benefits people want”
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HSJ Knowledge
Improving the diagnosis and referral process
How medical IT can help to improve diagnosis and referrals
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HSJ Knowledge
The building blocks for integrated care
Six key building blocks are required for the delivery of integrated care
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HSJ Knowledge
Fast-forward to quicker discharge
Trusts should look to processes closer the home to reduce delayed discharge
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HSJ Knowledge
The NHS must be smart in how it buys technology
A single electronic system is essential to providing true value
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HSJ Knowledge
Use IT and drive real improvements in efficiency
High quality IT is essential if the NHS is to be effective in future
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News
Caldicott expected to raise legal doubts over CSU data services
The NHS Information Centre for health and social care is increasing its capacity to store and manage data in the expectation that commissioning support units will be prevented from holding sensitive information about patients.
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News
EXCLUSIVE: Technology sidelined in QIPP plans
Only one in six local NHS innovation and efficiency schemes explicitly mentions adopting or extending the use of new technologies, HSJ analysis reveals.
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News
Hunt puts 'technology revolution' in his top four priorities
Health secretary Jeremy Hunt has identified a “technology revolution” as one of his top four priorities for the NHS for the first time.
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News
Mandate aims to spark a 'revolution in transparency'
The NHS will be required to measure and publish outcomes data for all major services by 2015, to enable commissioners and patients to make more informed choices about care providers.
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HSJ Local
Fax hitch hits Berkshire cancer performance
PERFORMANCE: A fax server failure has led to a backlog in cancer waits in Berkshire.
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HSJ Knowledge
Weak links break handover chain
Pioneering a significant improvement to clinical handover
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HSJ Local
RBH performance drops on Cerner implementation
PERFORMANCE: The implementation of the Cerner Millenium electronic patient record system has had a detrimental impacted on patient experience at the Royal Berkshire Hospital.
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News
Protocol required to prevent information use 'surprises'
New information governance rules must ensure patients are no longer “surprised or shocked” about how their records are being used or shared, the chair of a national review has said.
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News
Fresh concerns over NHS data protection
The information watchdog has raised fresh concerns about the NHS’s ability to protect sensitive personal data, warning trusts of further fines and adverse publicity if they fell short of their duties.
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HSJ Local
Bournemouth healthcheck deal breaches data protection act
PERFORMANCE: NHS Bournemouth and Poole has been found guilty of breaching the Data Protection Act for passing patient information to a company it had commissioned to carry out NHS health checks.